Sexual dystopias
Yet another Marcon panel-related post: Sexual dystopias
My definition - a fictional depiction of a society predicated on the oppression, demonization, or destruction of one gender by another. Some examples:
Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Shore of Women, Pamela Sargent
Gate to Women's Country, Sheri S. Tepper (the society they find towards the end of the novel)
Benefits, Zoe Fairbanks
the Gor novels
the Drow trilogy (Menzoberanzan), RA Salvatore
Female Man, Joanna Russ
Walk to the End of the World, Suzy McKee Charnass
as well as television episodes of "Sliders" and "Otherworld"
Feel free to list others.
My definition - a fictional depiction of a society predicated on the oppression, demonization, or destruction of one gender by another. Some examples:
Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Shore of Women, Pamela Sargent
Gate to Women's Country, Sheri S. Tepper (the society they find towards the end of the novel)
Benefits, Zoe Fairbanks
the Gor novels
the Drow trilogy (Menzoberanzan), RA Salvatore
Female Man, Joanna Russ
Walk to the End of the World, Suzy McKee Charnass
as well as television episodes of "Sliders" and "Otherworld"
Feel free to list others.